A Patterned Past Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography

Schaberg, David

ISBN 10: 0674008618 / ISBN 13: 9780674008618

Published by Harvard University Asia Center, 2002

About this Item

Grey cloth cover with silver spine; DJ is not price clipped; No marks or writing, clean tight; binding; Comprehensive study of the rhetoric, narrative patterns, aestetics and intellectual content of Zuozhuan and Guoyu, now label Conucian; indexed; ; Harvard East Asian Monographs; 528 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Patterned Past Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography
• Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674008618
• ISBN 13: 9780674008618
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good+ lettering binding
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-

About this title

Synopsis

In this comprehensive study of the rhetoric, narrative patterns, and intellectual content of the Zuozhuan and Guoyu, David Schaberg reads these two collections of historical anecdotes as traces of a historiographical practice that flourished around the fourth century BCE among the followers of Confucius. He contends that the coherent view of early China found in these texts is an effect of their origins and the habits of reading they impose. Rather than being totally accurate accounts, they represent the efforts of a group of officials and ministers to argue for a moralizing interpretation of the events of early Chinese history and for their own value as skilled interpreters of events and advisers to the rulers of the day.

About the Author

David Schaberg is Associate Professor of Chinese at the University of California, Los Angeles.